Infrastructure Architect

Job summary

The role defines infrastructure architecture for a large core banking transformation across on-premise data centres and Azure. It covers platform design for core banking, API, Kafka, observability, and integration workloads, as well as high availability, disaster recovery, and architecture documentation. The environment includes Kubernetes/OpenShift, VMware, Linux, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Exadata, Terraform, and Ansible.

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of infrastructure engineering and architecture experience, including significant banking experience.
• Demonstrated architecture leadership in a large core banking transformation.
• Track record of designing high availability and disaster recovery for tier-1 banking systems.
• Experience working with core banking vendors and global system integrators.

Responsibilities

• Define target infrastructure architecture across on-premise data centres and Azure, including compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes/OpenShift, middleware, and database hosting.
• Design landing zones and platform patterns for core banking, API, Kafka, observability, and integration workloads.
• Define high-availability topologies, backup strategies, and disaster-recovery patterns with RTO and RPO aligned to service criticality.
• Produce reference architectures, high-level and low-level designs, and architecture decision records.

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